The Indian army wrote to the media group recently on 15 May expressing its displeasure on the wrong reporting by its platform asking it to ‘corroborate factual information from official sources when reporting on sensitive military issues.’
Addressing his letter to Abhijit Majumder, managing editor editor, Mail Today, the army’s public relations officer, Colonel Aman Anand wrote, “Please refer to report titled “ Major who tied Kashmiri civilian to Jeep given clean chit, Army Brass believes he saved lives” authored by Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu published in Mail Today dated 15 May 2017. The report has stated that the Court of Inquiry has given clean chit to the Major involved in an incident wherein a civilian was tied to an Army jeep.